Sun beams for Sunbeams at 40 with Innellan and Toward Family Cente
In the sunniest spot in Cowal on Saturday 9th June, dozens of families and all generations relaxed on the lawns of Castle Toward, enjoying live music from The Mossy River Band.This was the Innellan...
View ArticleEllis Cameron: settling in
I’ve been home for a week now and settling in very nicely I might add. Here’s what I’ve been up to so far.Piazza-ingI started back at Piazza on Monday and it feels already like I’ve always been here;...
View ArticleVote NOW for Isle of Gigha Heritage Trust in 2012 National Lottery Awards
From today (26th June) onwards, the Isle of Gigha Heritage Trust is looking to its friends and well wishers across Argyll and the Isles – and elsewhere.Public voting opens on that day for those...
View ArticleEllis Cameron: Getting inventive
This week there’s been a few birthdays and also a few cost saving evenings. While I’m back in Oban I try to save my wages and spend my tips each week, so that I have the money I’ve earned to use back...
View ArticleGlencoe avalanche tragedy touches Argyll
[Updated 21st January - tribute frm SAMS] Everyone is numbed by the loss of four young lives in yesterday’s [19th January 2013] avalanche at Church Door Buttress on Bidean nam Bian in Glencoe. The loss...
View Article11 year olds to be locked up with the spirits in Inveraray Jail – for Comic...
11 year old Shira Macaskill has, with some of her friends, has arranged to be locked up in Inveraray Jail on Saturday 16th March in aid of Comic Relief.All we can say is that if some of the known...
View ArticleThe bald ascent of Schiehallion – from Inveraray
There was a lot of joking, a lot of reason for it, a lot of skill, a lot of magic and a lot of sweat on Saturday [16th March] at Inveraray Fire Station.The crew at the station climbed the Perthshire...
View ArticleAuchindrain joins the Eden Project’s Big Lunch to mark its 50th anniversary...
Auchindrain, Scotland’s last preserved historic Highland farm township, sees the 50th anniversary of its current status as a preserved heritage site on 1st June 2013.To mark the occasion, Auchindrain...
View ArticleAdrian Lauder – Celebration Service on 15th April
There is to be a Celebration Service for Adrian Lauder on Monday 15th April at the Argyllshire Gathering Halls at around 5.00 pm.Elaine Lauder would like everyone whose life was touched by Adrian to...
View ArticleStruan Lodge closure proposal and costs confusion – have we not seen this...
So much about the mechanistic philosophy of the proposal to close Struan Lodge is familiar. So is the costing defended by a series of different stories, often contradictory:It was gross costing.No...
View ArticleAuchindrain in crisis: facing paying off its two permanent staff
The important and much loved Auchindrain, a few miles south of Inveraray and the last of Scotland’s preserved highland farm townships – is facing an imminent financial crisis not of its own...
View ArticleWestern Ferries family welcomes the new kids
At first it was all about waiting. Then it was about learning. We’d expected today to be about the two new boats – and it was – but it was really about family, the extended family that is Western...
View ArticleMichael Moore’s choice to be sacked reveals insight into how Westminster...
It has been revealed in the last couple of days that former Scottish Secretary, Borders MP Michael Moore, had been offered the opportunity to resign – but chose to be sacked.Angry friends of Mr Moore...
View ArticleBBC ALBA: Murder in the Islands – the Liam Aitchison story
Due to a blizzard in For Argyll’s inbox, we didn’t find this information in time to publish it for BBC ALBA’s initial transmission of the programme on Wednesday 13th November.But it is a typical piece...
View ArticleTiree considering community buy out
The community on Argyll’s Atlantic island of Tiree is starting to examine the viability of a community buy out.This is no hot-flush, emotion-led crusade but a careful examination of options and...
View ArticleUrgent help needed to trace Jamie Taggart of Linn Botanical Gardens
Family and friends of horticulturist, Jamie Taggart [above], who runs the Linn Botanical Gardens at Cove on the Rosneath peninsula, west of Garelochhead, are becoming increasingly concerned for his...
View ArticleUpdate on efforts to trace Jamie Taggart
All of the publicity around Jamie Taggart of Linn Botanical Gardens in Cove in the Rosneath peninsula has already been shown to be helpful.A British travel organizer living in the part of north Vietnam...
View ArticleFund raising at Peninsula Choir concert at Cove and prayer vigil at St...
The image above is a poignant one, with yellow ribbons tied to the railings outside Cove Fire Station in the Rosneath peninsula. They are there for Jamie Taggart, the 41 year old retained firefighter...
View ArticleStuart Owen
Stuart Owen, the successful and committed manager of Mid Argyll Community Pool in Lochgilphead, collapsed suddenly and later died on Saturday morning while – typically – contributing to the Lochgair...
View ArticleHas Jilli Blackwood got friends at the BBC?
There is widespread perplexity at the heist launched on the Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony by the announcement from BBC staff, supported by unions Bectu and, of course, Unite – that they will...
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